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dead-beat
adjective as in fatigued
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Marilyn Johnson explored the subculture of obituary scribes in her wonderful 2006 book, The Dead Beat.
Naposki, a dead-beat dad who squandered his NFL salary long ago, was desperately looking for a big payday.
The flock must have been dead beat, by the time they got here.
"You're nigh dead beat, both on you," he said, sympathetically.
No, I didn't notice it, but I was so dead beat that I simply flung myself down and slept like a log.
It would have been a dead beat across the sands to Cuxhaven, while it was a fair wind straight out to the Eider River.
McKenna, dead-beat, gained the outlying logs and fell as he reached solid earth.
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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dead-beat, such as: exhausted, listless, weary, beat, bedraggled, and bushed.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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